B3.4.1 Waste From Human Activity GCSE items that can be used to define successful outcomes for peer and self assessment activities

Using Exam pro items to support successful outcomes B3.1.1 Dissolved substances Using Exam pro items to support successful outcomes Learners will be able to test their progress against learning outcomes using questions taken from past AQA GCSE examinations. Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

A large supermarket chain is advertising ‘our goal is to make our business carbon neutral in the next five years’. (i) Why does the supermarket management think that this will attract more customers? .................................................................................................................................... (1) (ii) One step that the supermarket chain intends to take is to obtain as much food as possible from British sources. Explain how this will help the environment. .................................................................................................................................... (2) (Total 3 marks) Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

allow idea of helping the world (1 mark) i) customers concerned with the environment / green issues (will be attracted) owtte allow idea of helping the world (1 mark) (ii) reduces transport of food (1 mark) less carbon dioxide / greenhouse gas / emissions / harmful gases / lower carbon footprint (from transport) allow less fuel used ignore pollution unqualified (1 mark) (3 marks total) Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

Exampro QB03 F17 Global Warming Q1.          The graph shows changes in temperature and in carbon dioxide concentration in the earth’s atmosphere between 1860 and 1990. Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

(a)  Give two human activities which may have helped to increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 1 ............................................................................................................................... 2 ............................................................................................................................... (2 marks) (b) (i)   Describe the changes in temperature shown by the graph between 1860 and 1990. ........................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................... (2 marks) (ii)     Do the data in the graph prove that increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere caused the changes in temperature you described in part (b) (i)? Give a reason for your answer. ........................................................................................................................... (1 mark) (c)     Describe one way in which a change in temperature such as that shown in the graph might affect the environment. ..................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................... (1 mark) (Total 6 marks) Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

M1. (a) burning / combustion fossil fuels / burning wood accept named fossil fuel; accept driving cars / any vehicles do not accept burning / combustion unqualified do not accept factories ignore factory chimneys unqualified ignore respiration 1           deforestation 1 (b)     (i)      (overall) increase 1          fluctuations 1 (highs are higher and lows are not as low = 2 marks) (ii)     no – could be due to some other factor or could be coincidence or fluctuations ± same size as the overall rise or large fluctuations or sometimes when CO2  rises temperature doesn’t 1 Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

(c) any one biotic or abiotic effect eg: do not credit just “climate / weather change” allow extreme climate / weather change           changes in rainfall accept drought, desert formation           ice-caps melting / rise in sea level accept flooding           changed pattern of winds           changed pattern of migration           changed species survival           changed growth 1 [Total 6] Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

Exampro QBB04 F16 In December 1952, there was a thick fog in London. The graph shows changes in the amounts of sulphur dioxide and smoke in the air and the number of people dying during this period. Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

(i) Why were the lungs particularly affected? Exampro QBB04 F16 (a) Describe one human activity which releases sulphur dioxide into the air. .....................................................................................................................................(1) (b) Human deaths during this period were caused mainly by lung diseases. (i) Why were the lungs particularly affected? ...........................................................................................................................(1) (ii) Give evidence from the graph which suggests that sulphur dioxide might have caused these deaths. (iii) Does the graph prove that sulphur dioxide caused these deaths? Explain your answer. (Total 4 marks) Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

(a) burning fossil fuels / named example Mark scheme Exampro QBB04 F16 (a) burning fossil fuels / named example accept driving cars / lorries etc burning fuels in power stations ignore combustion unqualified do not accept catalytic converter on its own or emissions from power stations 1 (b) (i) pollutants / smoke breathed in (ii) SO2 and deaths rise (and fall) at same times or SO2 and deaths parallel each other / show same pattern (iii) no – could be due to some other factor / pollutant / to smoke or correlation not precise / described explanations must come to a conclusion named examples must be plausible allow ‘coincidence’ [4] Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

The diagram shows a village and its surroundings. Exampro QCJ98F1. 02 pollution and quarrying The diagram shows a village and its surroundings. Use words from the list to complete the sentences about pollution. oxygen pesticides sewage sulphur dioxide The air might be polluted by ........................................ from the industrial site. The river might be polluted by ........................................ from the village and by ........................................ from the farmland. (3) (b) The owners of the quarry want to make it larger. Give one effect that this might have on wild plants and animals that live near the quarry. ..................................................................................................................................... (1) (Total 4 marks) Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.

(a) sulphur dioxide sewage pesticides for 1 mark each 3 Exampro QCJ98F1. 02 pollution and quarrying Mark scheme (a) sulphur dioxide sewage pesticides for 1 mark each 3 (b) idea of reduced numbers / loss of habitat (home) / killed or damaged by pollution for 1 mark 1 [4] Version 2.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.